Please backport cppcheck to 8.04 Hardy

[Zach Frey]

It would be extremely handy to have cppcheck available for Hardy. I'm not certain which version would be best -- presumably re-using the version in Jaunty backports ought to be fine.

[Zach Frey (zach-znfrey)]

OK, I've tried to build cppcheck for Hardy myself from cppcheck_1.40-1.dsc (Lucid), and I'm being thwarted by the requirement for debhelper >= 7 (hardy provides debhelper 6).

So, this means that a backported cppcheck would therefore also require the backported debhelper (7) from hardy-backports?

[Zach Frey (zach-znfrey)]

Enabling hardy-backports and updating debhelper (only) allowed cppcheck_1.40-1.dsc to build for me.

cppcheck_1.44-1.dsc does *not* build with the following error:

dpkg-source: error: Unsupported format of .dsc file (3.0 (quilt))

I'll try the cppcheck 1.40 package and see how it goes.